Time Travel to Lost Cities
In a bare room adjoining the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, Chief Curator Massumeh Farhad places a virtual reality headset over her eyes.
Books About Time
Does time move differently for Jews? Does Judaism have its own view of time?
I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: An Interview with Esther Safran Foer
I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir
By Esther Safran Foer
Tim Duggan Book
$27.00, 226 pp.
Though her parents didn’t talk about it, Esther...
Opinion Interview | Now is the Time to Fix The Climate
Zero Hour, the anti-climate-change group that Jamie S. Margolin founded two years ago when she was 16, calls itself “a movement of unstoppable youth.”
Opinion Interview | Why Evangelicals Worship Trump
What do President Donald Trump and the religious right see in each other?
What to Read: A Sampling of the Ways the World Ends
Something about watching civilization and its institutions collapse makes me nostalgic for the dystopian novels of my childhood.
Must We Attend all the Shuls?
Even in normal times, too many people suffer from FOMO, the fear of missing out, the result of attempting to live, as the kids say, “all the lives.”
Jewish Word | Emet
Suppose you’ve made a golem, a man-shaped figure of clay, and you want to bring it to life.
Opinion Interview | Will the Middle East Erupt?
When a Middle East crisis erupts, it can be hard to think long term. But Robert Malley sees larger, longer-running dangers in the region.
Opinion Interview | Steven Waldman on America’s Long Struggle for Religious Liberty
Most recently, Waldman says he’s alarmed by the level of bigotry faced by Muslims—often unnoticed by those who consider themselves “persecuted” by, say, gay couples wanting wedding cakes, but who see all Muslims as terrorists and oppose the construction of mosques.
The Magic of Alice Hoffman
The best-selling writer infuses her new novel on the Holocaust with Jewish legend—in the form of a rare female golem. “For me,” she says, “literature and magic are kind of melded together.”
Reading By Numbers: Applying Sports Analytics to Our Summer Books Symposium
Why not pick your next read by applying sports-style analytics?